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-16 May 09 - 15:54
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Sällsamma kretslopp och radikala veck
-22 March 09 - 07:33
Sällsamma kretslopp och radikala veck
Topologins ord för veckbilningar är involutioner; operationer där en avbildning eller mapping, mångfaldigt avbildas in i sig själv.Som den gamla ,högst fascinerande,reklametiketten på min barndoms burkar med skurmedlet Tomteskur.Etiketten föreställde en tomte som höll en exakt likadan burk Tomteskur i handen. O.s.v. in i en förminskning som ögat inte längre kunde uppfatta.
Talsystemet kan avbildas in i sig självt på många olika sätt.Till exempel så att varje heltal tillordnas det efterföljande. Detta kan upprepas oändligt många gånger om varje avbildning börjar ett steg (ett heltal) efter det där den föregående avbildningen började:
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Orgeln i Harakers kyrka
-12 March 09 - 08:40
Ett provstycke ur romanen “Fru Sorgedahls vackra vita armar”. Atlantis,Stockholm 2008.
ORGELN I HARAKERS KYRKA
Vad min mamma hade att säga om Haraker och dess orgel var,om jag nu kan minnas det rätt,ungefär så här:
De rika översvämningsslätterna kring Svartåns övre lopp frambragte välstånd och kyrkobyggnader som ,exempelvis i Västerfärnebo,närmar sig det pompösa.Jämfört med vad som byggdes i de skogsnära byarna som Sör-Ål och Åhl, kunde Västerfärnebo och Haraker framstå som små katedraler.
I Haraker gick det dock med tiden neråt och då,när min mamma bodde hos prosten och diskade och städade och bäddade sängar och rensade grönsaksland där, hade den vackra kyrkan hunnit bli litet sliten,Och kyrkorgeln värst.Den var egentligen ett mäktigt instrument,byggd av instrumentbyggaren Samuel Christian Zwittenhoff från Lübeck år 1810,samma år som slaget vid Leipzig och Hegels Phenomenologie des ...
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Ibsen s Wild Duck,Illusionism and the 19th Century
-05 March 09 - 13:38
The Wild Duck; Ibsen and Illusionism in the Nineteenth Century
Gregers Werle returns to his home town.He seems still to be rather young,shall we say in his thirties ?He is an educated son of a successfull local businessman.He is the typical radical of the Scandinavian 1880’s.
He believes in the force of Truth.Truth is a force which shall set men free,not quite in the Pauline sense but in the sense of the French Enlightenment,and in the sense of the Scandinavian radicalism of the 1880s. Society is founded on unfounded beliefs,secret but strong conventions and mutual understandings which keep people from seeing themselves and their fellows in the true light of reality.They shall mobilize the courage to see themselves and their situation as they are and this knowledge will set them free.
As far as his idealism goes , Gregers Werle has very ...
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How do Things remember ?
-05 March 09 - 13:35
On Connectedness, Or; How do Things remember ?
Stanislaw Lem,the great Polish Science Fiction writer,has written a highly readable book on his childhood,which is called "The High Castle" or in Polish "Wysoki Zamek" - a book full of the most remarkable observations and unusual experiences.One passage which has caught my attention ,goes something like this in my English rendering;
"I believed,without confiding the secret to anybody,that dead objects like man might suffer from shortcomings and inadequacies,and even that they might be forgetful.If one had enough patience ,one might be able to force them to multiply by taking them by surprise.Thus,if one assumed that a pocket-knife ,which hade been left in a drawer ,did forget where it was supposed to be ,one might later find it in a completely different place,e.g.among the books in a shelf.As it would lack possibilities to get out of ...
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Absurd Claims
-05 March 09 - 13:32
Absurd Claims
1.The Problem
In the following we shall consider a type of sentences ,which if seriously uttered in the relevant context ,make a claim which can impossibly be true.
“I am not here.”
“I am dead.”
“I do not exist.”
might serve as introductory examples.At a first look they might appear as the type of playful jokes which populate so much of Lewis Carrolls books and logical puzzles.But there is something more to them - as I shall try to demonstrate.They belong to a region of what Sören Hallden called “The Logic of Nonsense” which illuminates some aspects of Meaning in general.
I have already remarked that the claim made in each of my examples is a claim that can “impossibly be true”. ...
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Jackson Pollock
-05 March 09 - 13:26
Lars Gustafsson
The Never-Ending Image
Reflexions on Jackson Pollock´s Paintings 1946-1950
Clement Greenberg,the great New York critic, and one of the very first to realize the importance of what Jackson Pollock was doing in the grand period 1946-1950 , obviously saw it as a new pendulum move in an oscillating movement which seems to have gone on in modern painting since the time of Seurat and early Picasso, between representative and non-representative painting. In his essay "American-Type Painting" Greenberg writes "I do not think it exaggerated to say that Pollock's 1946-1950 manner really took up Analytical Cubism from the point at which Picasso and Braque had left it when ,in their collages of 1912 and 1913,they drew back from the utter abstractness for which Analytical Cubism seemed ...
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Wo Befinden sich die Farben
-05 March 09 - 13:20
Lars Gustafsson
WO BEFINDEN SICH DIE FARBEN ?
Über einige Irrtümer der Philosophen
Gewöhnliche Menschen — ich werde in diesem Text voraussetzen das es solche gibt, obwohl ich nicht ganz sicher bin — interessieren sich für Farben, weil sie ihrer Welt Schönheit, Vitali-tät und eine gewisse Sicherheit verleihen (denk an Verkehrssituationen oder an Besuche in dem Lebensmittelladen) die sie ohne Farben sicher nicht haben könnte.
Menschen, die durch das eine oder andere neurologische Defizit das Vermögen verloren haben, Farben zu sehen, erleben und beschreiben dies als eine radikale Einengung ihrer Wirk-lichkeit.
Über die Entscheidende Rolle, die Farben in der Kunst spielen und über ihr symboli-sches Gewicht wäre naturlich vieles zu sagen. Es ist z. B. nicht ganz sicher daß Farben in der Kunstgeschichte immer dieselbe Rolle gespielt haben;in der Modernismus passiert eine deutli-che Interiorisierung von den Farben; William Turners Randanmerkungen in seinem Exemplar von ...
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